Belarus national team hockey players - silver medalists of EYOF-2019

The hockey tournament ended at the Winter European Youth Olympic Festival in Sarajevo and East Sarajevo. The national team of Belarus lost to the Czech team in the final, thus becoming the silver medalist of the forum.

Belarus - Czech Republic - 1: 3 (0: 0, 1: 0, 0: 3)

The only puck Pavel Perepekhin's wards on account of Egor Klavdiev.

“They looked decent on this tournament! Unfortunately, gold medals failed to win. The guys added with each game, and even in the final we had a chance to win. But we didn’t have enough in the end, ”said head coach Pavel Perepekhin, who commented on the hockey team’s performance.

Team captain Kirill Buinich noted that the match was hard: “It’s very sad, of course, that it happened. But bad experience is also an experience. Still, this tournament proves that maybe we are not 100% ready to play with such teams, but we can impose a fight. I am very proud to be the captain of this team. Thank you very much to all the guys, the coaching staff. We all tried! Even if we are second, but we are winners, and this is important! "

In the group stage, the Belarusians minimally lost to the Slovaks (1: 2) and beat the Finns (4: 2), thereby passing from the first place to the final.

Silver hockey players - the second medal in the piggy bank of the national team of Belarus. Earlier, the bronze award was won by figure skater Evgeny Puzanov.